Éxodo 27:3

3 Harás asimismo sus recipientes para recoger las cenizas, y sus palas, sus tazones, sus garfios y sus braseros. Todos sus utensilios los harás de bronce.

Éxodo 27:3 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 27:3

And thou shall make his pans to receive his ashes
Not to receive them in as they fell, but to gather them up in, and carry them away; and this was done every morning about cockcrowing, not much sooner nor later ^F3:

and his shovels;
to throw up the ashes together to be put into the pans; Jarchi describes this vessel to be like the cover of a brass pot, with a handle to it; the same we call a fire shovel:

and his basins:
to receive the blood of the sacrifice, and out of which it was sprinkled, as the word signifies, and may be rendered sprinkling basins:

and his flesh hooks;
not such as were used to take flesh out of the pot, ( 1 Samuel 2:13 ) for there could be no use for such at the altar of burnt offering; but were, as Jarchi says, like hooks recurved, with which they struck into the flesh, and turned it upon the coals to hasten the burning of it; and with which very probably they kept the fire and the parts of the sacrifices in good order, until they were consumed:

and his fire pans; which were a kind of censers in which coals of fire
were taken off from the altar of burnt offering, and carried to the altar of incense, as Jarchi and Ben Gersom observe, see ( Leviticus 16:12 ) but as censers did not belong to the altar of burnt offering, but to the altar of incense, Fortunatus Scacchus ^F4 is of opinion, that these were a larger sort of vessels, wherein the fire which came down from heaven was kept burning while the altar and grate were cleansed from the coals and ashes, and when the altar was had from place to place:

all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass;
as being fittest for the use of this altar.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 Misn. Yoma, c. 1. sect. 8. & Maimon, in ib.
F4 Sacr. Elaeochrism. Myrothec. l. 2. c. 73. p. 676, 677.

Éxodo 27:3 In-Context

1 Harás también el altar de madera de acacia, de cinco codos su longitud, de cinco codos su anchura, el altar será cuadrado, y de tres codos su altura.

2 Y le harás cuernos en sus cuatro esquinas; los cuernos serán de una misma pieza con el altar, y lo revestirás de bronce.

3 Harás asimismo sus recipientes para recoger las cenizas, y sus palas, sus tazones, sus garfios y sus braseros. Todos sus utensilios los harás de bronce.

4 Le harás un enrejado de bronce en forma de red, y sobre la red harás cuatro argollas de bronce en sus cuatro extremos.

5 Y la pondrás debajo, bajo el borde del altar, de manera que la red llegue hasta la mitad del altar.